Meet the Devex Authors

Francesco Gatti

Francesco Gatti

Francesco Gatti is a Ph.D. researcher in transnational governance at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy. His research focuses on international organizations and regime complexity, with a particular emphasis on global trade and health governance.
Francesco Rocca

Francesco Rocca

Francesco Rocca is the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and national president of the Italian Red Cross Association. He has enjoyed a long and distinguished career with the Italian Red Cross, first as its head of emergency operations in 2008 and its Extraordinary Commissioner (2009-2013) before being appointed national president (2013-2017) and later national president of the Italian Red Cross Association.
Francine Picard

Francine Picard

Francine Picard is co-founder and director of partnerships at the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate. She is also coordinator of the Zero Hunger Coalition, a global initiative that catalyses coordinated action to achieve zero hunger in the world by 2030.
Francine Pickup

Francine Pickup

Francine Pickup is the United Nations Development Programme’s deputy director in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support. She has worked in the U.N., Oxfam, and Amnesty International in various countries including Serbia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, and the occupied Palestinian Territory.
Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson is FCA executive director, and has worked in tobacco control since 1996. From 1996 to 2006, he focused on Canadian regulatory and tax issues; since 2007, he has been full-time on international tobacco control.
Francis West

Francis West

Francis West is Senior Private Sector Adviser in Save the Children's Policy and Research Team. He has government affairs experience across both the private sector and civil society and holds and MSc in International Conflict, Security and Development.
Francisco Rivera

Francisco Rivera

Francisco Rivera is a human rights attorney, law professor, and founding director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Santa Clara University in California. He specializes in the inter-American human rights system and was a senior staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States that is based in Costa Rica. He has been a consultant for a number of NGOs, as well as for the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization, and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.
Franck Chartier-Dumas

Franck Chartier-Dumas

Franck Chartier-Dumas is the project lead in health surveillance systems at SICPA and working in the health care and IT industries for almost 20 years. He has been supporting the development and implementation of pharmaceutical traceability solutions and public health monitoring systems, especially wastewater epidemiology-based, to support health authorities and governments.
Franck Wiebe

Franck Wiebe

Franck Wiebe is the chief economist at the Millennium Challenge Corp. Prior to joining MCC in 2006, Wiebe was chief economist at The Asia Foundation and worked with the Harvard Institute for International Development. Wiebe received master’s degrees from Northwestern University and the Kennedy School of Government, and his doctorate from Stanford University.
Francois Bonnici

Francois Bonnici

François Bonnici is director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum. His experience spans over two decades of front-line work as a physician and progressive partnerships with public sector, multilaterals, civil society, businesses, and foundations.